Mungkin ayatnya sepatut dibaca begini:
PM puas hati. Rakyat terima kenaikan harga minyak?
Perbedaannya: samada rakyat terima atau tidak bukan menjadi kayu pengukur pada PM dan para sahabatnya. Yang penting, depa puas hati naikkan minyak, fullstop.
Pada ramai pemerhati politik Malaysia, kepimpinan (bukan Malaysia) BN telah terpisah dari rakyat; mereka kini hidup dalam alam mereka sendiri dan sentiasa dikawal dan diiringi oleh pengikut pengikut yang memberi banyak maklumat palsu kepada kepimpinan mereka.
Jika dikaji sejarah, kepimpinan BN hidup seperti Hitler, Stalin, Mao Ze Tung, dan ramai lagi di mana mereka sentiasa digeruni dan ampu oleh pengikut sendiri. Dengan itu, lazimnya, mereka hanya mahu mendengar pertuturan mereka diiyakan oleh pengikut pengikut ini. Rakyat jelata? Kenalah mereka samada ikut, atau lawan.
Bak kata Celcom: Pilihan Di Tangan Anda.
M.G.G. Pillai
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Pak Lah said the people are angry with the 30 sen increase in petrol but warned that the opposition parties were taking advantage of it. He withdrew the subsidy to petrol companies, a practice started about 40 years ago to keep prices down. The oil companies had not increased the prices, but the removal of the subsidy increased the price. The government explained that petrol companies have not increased the prices for some time but the government has withdrawn 30 sen of the subsidies! Whatever the reason, the people now pay nearly two ringgit per litre in petrol. But it was not he who withdrew the subsidy but his son-in-law, Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, so that the government would have enough money for his projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan. This may or may not be true, but the studied silence in the government and civil service to allegations on the Internet and alternate press that now takes as read that the son-in-law demanded it. That sticks, whether Pak Lah likes it or not and he refuses to say otherwise.
Pak Lah's spin was to prove he did right in withdrawing the subsidy. He warned all not to raise prices. But this is ignored. Cooking gas went up five ringgit, not announced as in the past. The mainstream and government-owned or controlled media talked about why it was necessary to withdraw the subsidy, but not about the widespread price rises, from cooking gas to vegetables. This was to ease government's finances so that the people did not suffer. But it was they who did. It annoys people in secret, not even telling parliament about it, confident that it could do as it liked because it has been voted into power; until now. If the withdrawal of subsidy was the right government policy, it is because there are no elections in the near future, and Pak Lah should have defended it, instead of talking through his (metaphorical) hat. He was now shown that the people are adrift from the National Front.
He also said he would soon lessen the burden of those affected badly. But he should have thought of that before the subsidy was removed. The National Front nor UMNO nor the civil servants explain their actions. They think they can tell what they like and the people will lap it up and be left in the dark. But times have changed. The people have found other ways to get past the government ban on publications except what it approves. No newspaper can be published if it does not support the National Front government. It does not explain its or civil service actions. In this vacuum, other voices creep in and form the news that people get. The people are quiet for fear of arrest. But the Internet has led many a men-in-the-street writing his version of what happened. Often, this is more accurate than the media, controlled by either parties in the National Front, or by its members. There is the added restriction that the media is now controlled by the Prime Minister of the day, and what he or his men say goes.
There have been frequent demonstrations over the fuel price rise, but the media ignores it. That is the work of opposition parties, so says Pak Lah, so that Malaysians would know who their enemies are. In any case, discussions and demonstrations of the withdrawal of subsidy is allowed, so long as an official account of Petronas' RM1,000 billion theoretical earnings are not demanded. Since people will protest the rising prices, the National Front government would rather keep the lid on this demonstration than explain what they cannot explain. There are theories where most of that money went. The government â which prides itself as being caring â will be in worse trouble if it explains that. It is reported in the Internet that Petronas has sold petrol to Taiwan until 2010 at a fixed price of under RM20 per barrel for loans it took in advance when the deal was signed. It does not matter if that is true; but it is beliveed by significant sections of people so that any government explanation is disbelieved. Pak Lah and the cabinet knew about it. And they have to juggle matters to hide that at any cost.
Opposition even comes from within UMNO. A few branch (cawangan) members have said they plan to demonstrate at Sri Perdana in Putrajaya, the official residence of Pak Lah. They do not believe his office is a family preserve. They cannot understand why he relies heavily on his children, son-in-law, brothers and their Chinese partners. His transferring from the menteri besar's car into that of Mr Patrick Lim, his son's Chinese business partner and in UMNO circles referred to as "Patrick Badawi", in Kuala Terengganu, has acquired the status of legend. He himself told one businessman whose land had been taken by the government for its own use, for which land in Cyber Jaya and Nibong Tibal in Penang state would be given as compensation, had to wait for years before he got it; but in such a way that neither of his family's Chinese partners would grab it. This should have been a civil service decision. Why is the prime minister involved in such a mundane decision? Is it because there is money in government land, often and usually given for a song, that he decides on it?
But it is not only the recent petrol price that has landed Pak Lah in trouble. In the recent by-election of Pengkalan Pasir in Kelantan, no mention of Islam Hadhari, allegedly his speciality, was allowed. UMNO campaigners could not say why it should be followed in Malaysia and not Islam, which PAS espouses and is the country's official religion. No one has explained what it stands for. UMNO leaders talk of it as being an Islam suited for modern times. But there is no discussion, even by UMNO leaders, because it is a political concept and not a religion as Islam is. It was concocted by the former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad â and Pak Lah recently published a book on it â to attack PAS. It is drummed into Malaysian minds that they should follow Islam Hadhari over Islam. But Islam Hadhari is anything but a religion. Malaysians are not allowed to discuss it, except laudatory. One does follow Islam Hadhari as one follows Islam. Otherwise why was Islam Hadhari excluded from Pengkalan Pasir?
The National Front believes that its prime minister can say what he likes, and they follow. At least that is the fiction. But at a seminar in Petaling Jaya yesterday (12 March 2006) one speaker said the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) leaders had approached his organisation over UMNO's policies which they do not agree. But they should have expected that because they were more interested in being in the cabinet than for why they had been sent there by their communities. This is not surprising because UMNO members are also angry with their president, and his belief he is invincible and can do as he likes. He appoints the editor of the New Straits Times, and the Star support him because it is owned by the MCA, and pushes the Chinese point of view as vigorously as the NST pushes the UMNO president's point of view. But even UMNO and MCA members do not believe in their leaders' way of making themselves important. The alternative papers and the Internet are the source of news these days. So what is published in the mainstream media is by and large ignored. They are sold not for the news they contain, but for the advertisement in them.
The reaction to the withdrawal of the subsidy is not what Pak Lah and his supporters expected. There is now as many Malays in UMNO as outside. Although the electoral system is so weighted that no opposition party can win 40 seats and more, the Malay is as dissatisfied with UMNO now as the non-Malays are with their parties. UMNO did not realise this until too late, its leaders still assuming that the Malays today are like their fathers and grandfathers. They are not prepared to accept UMNO's pre-eminent role. UMNO has to be careful in its reaction, because when it is weak or quarrelsome, as now, the opposition gains. But that now includes more Malays than UMNO is comfortable with. But when a significant number of UMNO members think that their president is wrong, then Pak Lah has to be worried.
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Posted by Raja Petra Kamarudin to MGG Pillai at 3/13/2006 11:44:00 AM
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pak Lah said the people are angry with the 30 sen increase in petrol but warned that the opposition parties were taking advantage of it. He withdrew the subsidy to petrol companies, a practice started about 40 years ago to keep prices down. The oil companies had not increased the prices, but the removal of the subsidy increased the price. The government explained that petrol companies have not increased the prices for some time but the government has withdrawn 30 sen of the subsidies! Whatever the reason, the people now pay nearly two ringgit per litre in petrol. But it was not he who withdrew the subsidy but his son-in-law, Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, so that the government would have enough money for his projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan. This may or may not be true, but the studied silence in the government and civil service to allegations on the Internet and alternate press that now takes as read that the son-in-law demanded it. That sticks, whether Pak Lah likes it or not and he refuses to say otherwise.
Pak Lah's spin was to prove he did right in withdrawing the subsidy. He warned all not to raise prices. But this is ignored. Cooking gas went up five ringgit, not announced as in the past. The mainstream and government-owned or controlled media talked about why it was necessary to withdraw the subsidy, but not about the widespread price rises, from cooking gas to vegetables. This was to ease government's finances so that the people did not suffer. But it was they who did. It annoys people in secret, not even telling parliament about it, confident that it could do as it liked because it has been voted into power; until now. If the withdrawal of subsidy was the right government policy, it is because there are no elections in the near future, and Pak Lah should have defended it, instead of talking through his (metaphorical) hat. He was now shown that the people are adrift from the National Front.
He also said he would soon lessen the burden of those affected badly. But he should have thought of that before the subsidy was removed. The National Front nor UMNO nor the civil servants explain their actions. They think they can tell what they like and the people will lap it up and be left in the dark. But times have changed. The people have found other ways to get past the government ban on publications except what it approves. No newspaper can be published if it does not support the National Front government. It does not explain its or civil service actions. In this vacuum, other voices creep in and form the news that people get. The people are quiet for fear of arrest. But the Internet has led many a men-in-the-street writing his version of what happened. Often, this is more accurate than the media, controlled by either parties in the National Front, or by its members. There is the added restriction that the media is now controlled by the Prime Minister of the day, and what he or his men say goes.
There have been frequent demonstrations over the fuel price rise, but the media ignores it. That is the work of opposition parties, so says Pak Lah, so that Malaysians would know who their enemies are. In any case, discussions and demonstrations of the withdrawal of subsidy is allowed, so long as an official account of Petronas' RM1,000 billion theoretical earnings are not demanded. Since people will protest the rising prices, the National Front government would rather keep the lid on this demonstration than explain what they cannot explain. There are theories where most of that money went. The government â which prides itself as being caring â will be in worse trouble if it explains that. It is reported in the Internet that Petronas has sold petrol to Taiwan until 2010 at a fixed price of under RM20 per barrel for loans it took in advance when the deal was signed. It does not matter if that is true; but it is beliveed by significant sections of people so that any government explanation is disbelieved. Pak Lah and the cabinet knew about it. And they have to juggle matters to hide that at any cost.
Opposition even comes from within UMNO. A few branch (cawangan) members have said they plan to demonstrate at Sri Perdana in Putrajaya, the official residence of Pak Lah. They do not believe his office is a family preserve. They cannot understand why he relies heavily on his children, son-in-law, brothers and their Chinese partners. His transferring from the menteri besar's car into that of Mr Patrick Lim, his son's Chinese business partner and in UMNO circles referred to as "Patrick Badawi", in Kuala Terengganu, has acquired the status of legend. He himself told one businessman whose land had been taken by the government for its own use, for which land in Cyber Jaya and Nibong Tibal in Penang state would be given as compensation, had to wait for years before he got it; but in such a way that neither of his family's Chinese partners would grab it. This should have been a civil service decision. Why is the prime minister involved in such a mundane decision? Is it because there is money in government land, often and usually given for a song, that he decides on it?
But it is not only the recent petrol price that has landed Pak Lah in trouble. In the recent by-election of Pengkalan Pasir in Kelantan, no mention of Islam Hadhari, allegedly his speciality, was allowed. UMNO campaigners could not say why it should be followed in Malaysia and not Islam, which PAS espouses and is the country's official religion. No one has explained what it stands for. UMNO leaders talk of it as being an Islam suited for modern times. But there is no discussion, even by UMNO leaders, because it is a political concept and not a religion as Islam is. It was concocted by the former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad â and Pak Lah recently published a book on it â to attack PAS. It is drummed into Malaysian minds that they should follow Islam Hadhari over Islam. But Islam Hadhari is anything but a religion. Malaysians are not allowed to discuss it, except laudatory. One does follow Islam Hadhari as one follows Islam. Otherwise why was Islam Hadhari excluded from Pengkalan Pasir?
The National Front believes that its prime minister can say what he likes, and they follow. At least that is the fiction. But at a seminar in Petaling Jaya yesterday (12 March 2006) one speaker said the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) leaders had approached his organisation over UMNO's policies which they do not agree. But they should have expected that because they were more interested in being in the cabinet than for why they had been sent there by their communities. This is not surprising because UMNO members are also angry with their president, and his belief he is invincible and can do as he likes. He appoints the editor of the New Straits Times, and the Star support him because it is owned by the MCA, and pushes the Chinese point of view as vigorously as the NST pushes the UMNO president's point of view. But even UMNO and MCA members do not believe in their leaders' way of making themselves important. The alternative papers and the Internet are the source of news these days. So what is published in the mainstream media is by and large ignored. They are sold not for the news they contain, but for the advertisement in them.
The reaction to the withdrawal of the subsidy is not what Pak Lah and his supporters expected. There is now as many Malays in UMNO as outside. Although the electoral system is so weighted that no opposition party can win 40 seats and more, the Malay is as dissatisfied with UMNO now as the non-Malays are with their parties. UMNO did not realise this until too late, its leaders still assuming that the Malays today are like their fathers and grandfathers. They are not prepared to accept UMNO's pre-eminent role. UMNO has to be careful in its reaction, because when it is weak or quarrelsome, as now, the opposition gains. But that now includes more Malays than UMNO is comfortable with. But when a significant number of UMNO members think that their president is wrong, then Pak Lah has to be worried.
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Posted by Raja Petra Kamarudin to MGG Pillai at 3/13/2006 11:44:00 AM
Perwira Osman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PM puas hati rakyat terima kenaikan harga minyak
Oleh Habibah OmarPUTRAJAYA 8 Mac - Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berpuas hati dengan sesi penerangan yang dijalankan bagi menjelaskan rasional kenaikan harga minyak kerana maklum balas yang diterima menunjukkan rakyat mula berfikiran positif mengenai kenaikan tersebut.Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad berkata, perkara itu disuarakan Perdana Menteri dalam mesyuarat Kabinet di sini hari ini.Menurutnya, sesi penerangan yang dijalankan oleh wakil rakyat, media dan pemimpin kerajaan berjaya memberikan kefahaman kepada rakyat.``Apabila kenaikan harga minyak diumumkan, orang ramai terkejut namun kini mereka telah positif dan sesi penjelasan itu akan diteruskan sehingga Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) diumumkan.``Rakyat mula faham kita tidak boleh hidup bergantung kepada subsidi dan RMK-9 yang bakal dibentangkan kelak mungkin memberikan pelbagai cerita gembira kepada rakyat,'' katanya ketika dihubungi di sini, hari ini.Pada mesyuarat itu juga, Radzi berkata, Kabinet telah mengarahkan supaya kadar subsidi gas petroleum cecair (LPG) dipaparkan bersama harga runcit bahan berkenaan berkuat kuasa serta-merta.Langkah itu, katanya, diambil bagi menunjukkan berapa banyak subsidi yang diberikan oleh kerajaan untuk setiap tong yang mengandungi berat yang berbeza-beza.``Arahan ini memerlukan tindakan segera bagi menunjukkan berapa harga sebenar LPG dan berapakah harga yang dibayar oleh rakyat selain kadar subsidi yang ditanggung oleh kerajaan,'' katanya.Ketika ditanya sama ada Kabinet turut membincangkan mengenai RMK-9, beliau berkata, perkara itu tidak dibincangkan kerana Perdana Menteri sendiri akan membuat pengumuman mengenainya.Pada 28 Februari lalu, kerajaan mengumumkan kenaikan harga runcit minyak petrol dan diesel sebanyak 30 sen seliter serta harga runcit LPG sebanyak 30 sen sekilogram.Dengan keputusan tersebut, harga runcit baru petrol premium RON97 di Semenanjung Malaysia naik kepada RM1.92 seliter, petrol RON92 RM1.88 seliter, diesel RM1.581 seliter dan LPG RM1.75 sekilogram.Kenaikan harga bahan bakar itu dilakukan bagi menangani kesan kenaikan harga minyak mentah di pasaran dunia selain membendung peningkatan subsidi yang ditanggung kerajaan.Kali terakhir kerajaan menaikkan harga runcit barangan petroleum ialah pada 31 Julai 2005 dengan peningkatan sebanyak 10 sen seliter bagi petrol, 20 sen seliter untuk diesel dan lima sen sekilogram untuk LPG.Nota : hahahhhhahhh.....
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